Actions to date
- Giant Public School Bulletin Board
- Lighting and recycling – simple focus
- Compost bin
- Recruiting other interested teachers, raised bed gardens
- “Click It” – Lights off program, art project with signs over switches, IGA – Paper grocery bags were decorated with green themes then given back to store and used to get the message out
- Stickers for smart boards, turn off and audit results
- Student run recycling program, got second dumpster which saved money because emptied less often
- Student brainstorming audit ideas, Cardboard vs. Styrofoam lunch trays, re-electric bill – compare month to month, better trash bins on school yard to keep from blowing away, recycle bins for school yard/ball fields?
- Also recycled light bulb ornaments.
- Collect Aluminum to benefit Haiti relief.
- Kids recycling clubs
- Recycling lined paper
- Graph amount of lined paper recycled
- Investigating greener cleaning products
- visits to the energy center
- Awards given to classes that recycle the most.
